Dear Friends of the Pub Quiz,
Last Monday a remarkable and unprecedented event happened at the Pub Quiz: a team earned a perfect score on the. The team, Portraits of Mohammed, scored a perfect 30 out of 30, and even answered the tiebreaker correctly. Of course, POM has participated in the Pub Quiz every Monday for the last three years, so they’ve had lots of practice. They also make a point of stacking their team with people with a wide variety of areas and expertise and qualities, including youth. Someone on the POM team last week suggested they should now retire, but I don’t think they will. Congratulate them tonight, if you are so inclined. You’ll find them at table 11.
I don’t know where “my” team will be seated. My wife Kate and her brother will be captaining a team tonight – he just arrived this afternoon from Seattle, and he always enjoys the show. Because I don’t include questions on topics that Kate and I have talked about extensively, the Pub Quiz takes some strange turns when she joins a team. Feel free to stop by and greet us, as well, and tell my Brother-in-Law Paul how much you enjoy the Pub Quiz.
As I am teaching an advanced poetry workshop this summer session, you would think that I would have nothing but poetry on my mind as I free associate, inventing Pub Quiz questions. Of course, like Quizmasters, poets can write on just about any topic. Tonight you should expect mottos for places (rather than shopping-cart consumables), internet culture, Canada, The Wizard of Oz, Europe, conceived pew terrors, comedic actresses who has had the third or fourth lead in some really big movies, songs from the 1970s, basketball, dragons, Hungarians, German carpenters, reality TV, snobs, textiles and clothing, needling heliports, this new X-Men movie that opened a couple weeks ago, two Shakespeare plays, baseball, radio, a City of Davis question (on request), Disney, places that you have heard of (but never visited), popular drugs, obituaries, South America, the Guinness Book of World Records, madcap comedic actors, and Shakespeare.
I hope you can join us tonight. I look forward to projecting over the din of a sold out night!
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Here are five questions from last week’s quiz:
10. Great Americans. What 19th century author in his most famous work that “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” Henry David Thoreau in Walden
11. Unusual Words. What three-syllable adjective beginning with the letter D means “Having a sophisticated charm”? Debonair
12. Another Music Question. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived and died in the same century that Tristam Shandy author Laurence Sterne lived and died in. Name the century. The 18th century
13. Pop Culture – Television. What is the name of the Amy Poehler American comedy television series that debuted on NBC on April 9, 2009 and was recently picked up for a fourth season? Parks and Recreation
14. Italian Islands. The two largest islands in the Mediterranean are both Italian. Name them. Sicily and Sardinia
Friends of the Pub Quiz, and those curious about all the fun and fuss associated with the Pub Quiz, should come to de Vere’s Irish Pub in Davis (217 E Street), the highly esteemed pub and restaurant that fills up every night because of the superb quality of food, drink and company that can be found there. The de Vere’s Irish Pub Pub Quiz takes place every Monday at 7pm, though players are encouraged to arrive early to claim a table. As always, find out more about the Pub Quiz by visiting https://www.yourquizmaster.com. For more on de Vere’s Irish Pub, visit http://deverespub.com/.